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Are we going to stand idly by as more sovereign countries are attacked? This farce has nothing to do with getting rid of nuclear weapons in the Middle East or else the US would shut down the billions of dollars of aid that Israel receives. Money that is funneled into its massive chemical, biological and nuclear arsenal, which is turning Israel into a dominant superpower. Their military & political might remains unchecked. They are in firm control of the world’s remaining superpower, the (…)

Dedication for the year 2120. A Dedication in 2120 might say: Dedicated to the memory of the Iraqi people. Many people believe Iraq was the birthplace of civilization some 5,000 years ago. Iraq was destroyed and radioactively contaminated in an early 21st Century Oil War by a fascist world power, now extinguished. Dedication to the Iraqi People in 2005. Iraq is uninhabitable. The Wars in Central Asia all were nuclear wars fought with radiation dispersing American weapons. None of (…)

Saturday, May 28, 2005
I have written to you in this space on a number of occasions about my profound concern about the implications of the "Downing Street Memo," which actually consists of the minutes of a July 2002 meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers. During this meeting, Blair and his advisers reveal details about conversations with their American counterparts. These details cast substantial doubt on the honesty of contemporaneous claims made by the (…)

By THAIS LEON .c The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A new TV station backed by Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba and Uruguay began transmitting by satellite Tuesday as part of the test phase for a project organizers say will bring Latin America an alternative to large commercial media outlets.
The first images shown on Telesur included promotional clips of people from various Latin countries dancing, smiling and holding political protests. All Venezuelan television channels were (…)

By Gary Leupp
[Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion]
Days after the 9-11 attacks, George W. Bush informed Americans, "This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile." As a Yale history major, he ought to have known what the medieval Crusades were all about: Christians against Muslims, mostly for control of Palestine, fought with all the viciousness and duplicity reflected in the recent film "The Kingdom of (…)

by the Collective Bellaciao
To us, who fight with many people involved in politics, trade unions and associations for the refusal of Constitutional treaty by European citizens, a European Constitution has to design the democratic framework for EU institutions functions. It must finalize a proposal process coming from periphery toward center, from peoples toward elected representatives.
Our adversaries, lead by financial capital and neo-liberal doctrine, try to definitely set the previous (…)

Two years ago I was a neocon. I supported Bush’s war on Iraq and I called everyone who didn’t a liberal Kool-aid drinker. I voted for Bush in 2000 and I listened to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and just about any right-winger on the radio that I could get a four-word talking point from to use against liberals. I would say things such as "liberals won’’ defend America," "shut up and sing," "freedom is on the march," and "you’re a great American." I supported the war at first because I bought (…)

Governments are betraying their promise of a world order based on human rights and are pursuing a dangerous new agenda, said Amnesty International today as it launched its annual report.
Speaking at the launch of the Amnesty International Report 2005, the organisation’s Secretary General Irene Khan said that governments had failed to show principled leadership and must be held to account.
"Governments are betraying their promises on human rights. A new agenda is in the making with the (…)

CITIZENS FORCE CANADIAN REJECTION OF BUSH’S NMD CAUSES CRISIS IN CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
By Leuren Moret
Community Environmental Advisory Commission*
Berkeley is the only city in the United States with its own Foreign Policy
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin survived a razor-thin vote of confidence on May 17, 2005, when the House of Commons voted 152-152 on a confidence vote which put his minority government in peril (1). It survived by a single vote when the Parliament speaker gave (…)

by David R. Hoffman
Is freedom of the American press a myth?In several previous PRAVDA articles, I discussed the Bush dictatorship’s prominent use of Adolph Hitler’s "great lie theory" - the political tactic where a leader fabricates "great lies," then "eternally" repeats them until a significant portion of the population comes to accept them as truth. The Bush dictatorship also discovered a residual benefit of the "great lie theory": People are often so myopic or so embarrassed by their (…)